... when you kill the life-giving part of anything, especially humanity, the whole of it is terminally ill. Baby's experience with the societal paradigm that classifies her and her family as only partially human and therefore partially an animal has acted upon her faith as chemotherapy acts upon bone ... of new beginnings. When these two values are combined what is summed is a judgment/government of new beginnings; or a massive paradigm shift, which is the message of the novel itself: the paradigm of slavery, in any form, in any circumstance, is a threat to the marrow of humanity: it kills...

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... production process (which the Taylorist processes seemingly emphasised) but as capable of an intellectual contribution to work which could be "improved" through the acquisition of information and knowledge The shift in the structure of economies towards service-oriented jobs and the increasing importance of information in the production process, according to Daniel Bell (1974), heralded the arrival of a ... trading environment. However, what we now label "services" have always been part of the manufacturing process, a point that Cohen and Zysman (1987) emphasise in their claim that no ...

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... SHIFTS IN LEXICALIZATIONS OF THE BAY Anjali Pandey Abstract This article examines shifting lexicalizations of the Chesapeake Bay in three generations' nomenclature, and points to a significant diachronic shift in environmental labelings currently occurring in an Atlantic seaboard speech community. The question investigated is whether lexicalizations about environmental preservation are the first step in the educational process ... the material products of behavior" (Salzman, 2007, p. 57) – simply stated, the difference between a privileging of a bay over a bridge by people. Linguists ...

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... takes faith that life can be better to demand positive change. In her book Light Emerging, Barbara Ann Brennan encourages her healing students to imagine the freedom that the holistic paradigm (Holographic Universe) brings; "In a hologram, we are both the observer and the creator. We are not just a part of a pattern, we are the pattern. A hologram is out of linear ... time and three-dimensional space. It is the interconnectedness of everything" (Brennan 43). Inherent in this paradigm is the cessation of time as it is limited in traditional mechanistic paradigms. The hologram offers unli...

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... minded Thoreau only when the naturalist can move beyond Emersonian metaphor in his later work, and therefore initiate (along with Susan Fennimore Cooper) an empirical "counteraesthetics" to the dominant paradigm in American environmental aesthetics codified in Emerson's line from his 1836 Nature: "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a ... )--the symbolic writer aspires to create linguistic whorls of centrifugal and centripetal forces ... to inspire an experience of ecological seeing, to be the currents of nature." (30) This shift from th...

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... his article recognizing that for post-development to be a socially effective tool depends on how we assess the current state of modernity. He posits that we are moving beyond the paradigm of modernity, both epistemologically and socially. Therefore, there is a need to move beyond the antiquated thinking in terms of the Euro-centric development and modernity. Jan Pieterse offers his ... of post-development recognized development as "a ruin in the intellectual landscape [that] shows cracks and is starting to crumble." Controversial, however, was the post-development rhetoric to shift from ...

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... employees provide above and beyond what is required offered by employees in their job (Frank et al 2004). From Kahn's definition it is clear that employee engagement is a multi-faceted paradigm. The multi-dimensional approach to looking at engagement comes from the perspective that Kahn took on the individual's working experience. Kahn (1990) argued that the work of Goffman (1961) only ... been through much iteration through the years with the employment level as well as union presence and strength exerting an influence over the relationship. Harbison and Myers (1959) discuss the shift ...

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... employees provide above and beyond what is required offered by employees in their job (Frank et al 2004). From Kahn's definition it is clear that employee engagement is a multi-faceted paradigm. The multi-dimensional approach to looking at engagement comes from the perspective that Kahn took on the individual's working experience. Kahn (1990) argued that the work of Goffman (1961) only ... been through much iteration through the years with the employment level as well as union presence and strength exerting an influence over the relationship. Harbison and Myers (1959) discuss the shift ...

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... generalized framework of ideologies associated with the rational parameters shaping the inception of Israel. Social movements do not spawn spontaneously. Whether a movement is violent in nature, or a shift to alter structures within peaceable means, its beginnings predominantly stem as a reaction. 37 Mobilization and resistance are oftentimes consequent of a perception that the conditions held within the ... of consolidating the Israeli state."" A turn would come later, in which gradual acceptance of the UNRWA would facilitate advancement within the movement. This shift from rejection to ...

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... are found in those under-developed countries which lie south of North America and Europe that have come to be called the "two-thirds world."" What has caused this major shift in the makeup of the global evangelical church? It has not necessarily been a decrease in church members in the evangelical churches of North America and Europe. These churches have actually ... grown during this period. Rather, this dramatic shift is attributed to the explosive growth of the church all over the wide span of the two-thirds world. It is remarkable how the makeup of the Church has changed ... altern...

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... India, Pakistani Islamic extremists have increasingly taken on the tone of their counterparts in the Middle East. Although many events have encouraged this shift in ideology, the recent war in Afghanistan has served as a catalyst in encouraging Pakistani Islamic groups to favor authoritarian ways over the ... well in national elections, the JUI had shared power in two of the smaller provinces. 5) The Pakistani government has long condoned this slow shift in ideology amongst Muslim radicals in Pakistan because it "privatizes- certain military operations. For example, by allowing militants...

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... we see today. 2.0 Introduction Computer games in general have come a long way since I was a child, but they have always incorporated interactive multimedia. From the beginning, computer games major design paradigm has always been on graphics, sound and interactivity. Let's take the example of Atari's early "Pong- game, which I can vaguely remember playing with my cousin in the 1980's. The ... . Since then, several technical innovations have changed the face of multimedia, and the following sections will highlight those changes in more detail. 3.0 Computer Games Past and Present: The Shif...

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... start asking is "Why?". From a realist's perspective, any state with a nuclear weapon is a threatens the "vital interest" of the United States. In context of the realist paradigm, Snow (2011) defines a vital interest as "properties and conditions on which states will not willingly compromise and which are thus too important to be submitted to any superiority" ... the change in ideology of the ruling regime, the United States starts strongly opposes Iran and visa versa. This ideological shift towards a radical ruled Iran complicates the situation. The breakdown of US-Iran relations h...

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... of Belief," the dark future for the people who have lost the unwavering faith of the past. Question III How does Modernism (as an aesthetic tendency) contribute to challenging the paradigm of Modernity (as a hegemonic discourse)? Response Modernity describes the rise of capitalism, of social study and state regulation, of a belief in progress and productivity, its critics contend that ... of either Yeats of Eliot? Response Modernity can be understood as life after the changes brought by industrialization, urbanization and secularization; it rationalized the world and brought about a grea...

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... schools of painting, which glorified the development of the nation. Starting with the Hudson River School founded by Thomas Cole, the nation obtained a visual representation of Manifest Destiny. While the shift to landscape painting in Europe at about the same time was seen as a move away from the more eminent topics of historical painting, in America the representation of landscape by ... represent the most spectacular locations, the most amazing heights and panoramas in order to symbolize the glory and power of American landscapes . It combines the different steps of America's steady s...

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... sex, and it will all be because of that evil, Satanic Rock and Roll. As the children of the 60's danced, the ground work was being laid for a huge societal shift. Sit-ins began, riots, and mass protests on college campuses were common place. In August 1962, 200 000 civil rights activists converged on Washington, D.C and heard Rev. Martin Luther King ... Berry Mann in 1961. Those songs also reflected the 60's and 70's generation. They reflected the creativity and love that ran free throughout the era. They represent the beginning of a paradigm shift in how love portrayed.. Love caused by...

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... States and the Soviet Union had been caught up in an international conflict through nearly three decades since 1945. Although a lull in the tensions between the two was welcome, the shift towards parity between the two nations was difficult for a country with a historically absolutist and moralistic worldview toward international affairs. Such a change became even more difficult to accept when it was ... enormous appeal(440). Despite détente's shortcomings, and despite its many detracters, nevertheless, there were significant foreign policy successes relative to détente. Principally, ...

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... Light. The human eye is from now on and primarily directed to the interior of the human self and not anymore to the truths of an eternal, cosmic order. This shift in attention coincides with the Christian demand to be a free human being, who has the obligation to honour and to love the Creator, not the creation. Respecting and loving the ... of Pure Reason, shows that what has been called 'Kant's Copernican Turn' had been inspired by Kant's concern for the deplorable situation of metaphysics in his time. The change of paradigm in astronomy serves in this Critique at first as an experime...

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... the West's desire for trade during this time period, and didn't practice the open door policy until much later. Perhaps this serves in itself as an example of a lack of paradigm shift. They refute other ideas or sciences, and continue to practice what they think is right, just because of tradition or culture. Science is ignored in a sense. If you think about ... ...

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... disk as complementary rather than competing technologies in a well-designed data backup and storage system" (Shread). Companies that are using both tape and disk in a data backup system are implementing a paradigm shift known as disk-to-disk-to-tape where disk is being used as a backup solution to augment tape. Over the years the role of tape has evolved from being the ... ...

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